Monday, April 24th, 2006

Time	Event
3:18p	metagraph redux — for Chien-Ling Liu                                In a Time of Cuisine                              A fact the gourmet                              euphemism can’t silence:                              vegetarians eat sex,                              carnivores eat violence.                              — Les Murray, April 2004                   Fair Play          Herbivorous scruples          betoken the coward —          men eat flesh on credit          ere they get devour’d. (Comment on this)
6:54p	righteous gentiles The strike of February 1941, one of the few spontaneous mass protests in German-occupied Europe, expressed the Dutch revulsion at Nazi repression and persecution of the Jews. This does not mean every Dutchman was a friend of the Jews, merely that they did not like German interference in domestic affairs. The well-known slogan, Keep your dirty hands off our dirty Jews, expresses this sentiment aptly. — Dick van Galen Last and Rolf Wolfswinkel, Anne Frank and After: Dutch Holocaust Literature in a Historical Perspective, Amsterdam University Press, 1996, p. 42 The slogan is indeed well-known, but documentary corroboration in regard to protective Dutch attitudes towards their vuile Joden is hard to come by. I recall a denial of this slogan as apocryphal in a symposium published in Harper’s Magazine around 1993. Can anyone corroborate it or cite similar slogans elsewhere? Crossposted to linguaphiles and history. (Comment on this)

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